Dance: Ca' The Ewes Tae The Knowes
32-bar Strathspey
2 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4
- Devised by:
- Thomas (19C) Wilson
(1816)
- Formations:
-
Figure of Eight - half (FIG8;1C;HALF;)
Allemande for 2 couples (ALLMND;2C;)
Rights and Lefts (R&L)
Note: This list may be incomplete.
Note: Due to limitations
in the underlying data,
the relative order of formations in this list may be different
from the order of formations in the actual dance.
- Steps:
- Strathspey travel
Note: This list may be incomplete.
- Published in:
-
Book 16
[8]
*
Pocket: Books 16,17,18
[8]
99 More Scottish Country Dances
[9]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7
[24]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6
[23]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8
[29]
- Recommended Music:
-
Mrs Blair (of Blair)
(Robert Macintosh)
Miss Marianne Oliphant of Rossie
(Robert Macintosh)
- Recordings (6):
Show tunes
-
Book 16. Music for Twelve Scottish Country Dances
(Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 8
[pace 62.9]
Scottish Dance Favourites Volume 1
(Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 12
[pace 62.9]
Scottish Dance Masters, The Vol 2
(Ron Gonnella & Iain MacPhail),
track 7
Australian Ladies
(Harp and Claymore),
track 7
Preliminary Test
(Muriel A Johnstone),
track 11
The Vallin Suite 1
(Neil Barron and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 11
[pace 67.1]
Crib
| 1-8 | 1C cast off behind own lines and back |
| 9-16 | 1C turn RH | cast off one ; ½ Fig8 up round 2C and cross up to 1pl (2C comes in) ready for |
| 17-24 | 1C+2C Allemande |
| 25-32 | 2C+1C R&L |
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